Sup Ct Ruling Troubles Health Insurers
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2003 Legislation & Regulation Liability Life & Health LitigationHealth insurers and property-casualty insurers were disappointed with a United States Supreme Court decision today upholding Kentucky's any willing provider statute—a decision the health insurers say will drive up health insurance premiums and may diminish health care quality. "Ultimately, it is the American worker who will bear the brunt of this decision," says Donald Young, president of the Washington-based Health Insurance Association of America in response to the unanimous Supreme Court decision in the case of Kentucky Association of Health Plans v. Miller. The issue in the Kentucky Association case involves Kentucky's AWP law, which says that health insurers may not discriminate against any health care provider who is willing to meet the terms and conditions for participation in a health plan.
